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Show i tn fi I'jB'fVIMV rtfY IVIVfHV im11D rt'ITHI? : y0L 49. NO. 33. An Independent Newspaper BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1910 Oldest Weekly in Salt Lake County 'PHONE 91 Bingham Canyon Welfare Ass'n. Becomes Reality Dr. Paul S. Richards, Lions Club President, Is Elected Head Eight months of preliminary work by the Bingham Lions club resulted in organization of a community chest Monday even-ing at the City hall. Acting on the Lions club committee re-sponsible for realization of es-tablishment of an association to direct an annual drive for funds to support community welfare projects were Earl T. James and Art J. Sorenson. The representatives of local or-ganizations meeting at the City hall Monday evening voted to call the local community chest group the "Bingham Canyon Wel-fare association". fi 4 X Paul S. !Dr. will the group s as Others elected Monday were El- - liott W. Evans, ivice Wilford president; H. Harris, second vice president; Irvin Stillman, treasurer. Naming of an Dr. Richards executive secre-tary was postponed until the next meeting. It was, however, decided that the secretary will be paid between $200 and $400 a year and will be responsible for a great deal of detail work. Purpose of the Welfare associ-ation will be the raising of funds to support established welfare projects and such annual drives as that of the American Red Cross, Infantile Paralysis drive, Cancer Relief drive, etc. Organizations annually raising funds for projects, as the Ameri-can Legion's Copperton summer playground, the Bingham fire-men's Fourth of July program, the junior chamber's summer band instruction program, the Women's Civic club Central school summer playground, and others, are represented on the board of directors of the Wel-fare association. The directors will budget funds raised in the annual welfare drive and will consider all requests presented for community assist-ance for any worthy cause. It is estimated that between $3500-$400- 0 must be raised by the Welfare association to satis-fy demands expected of the or-ganization during a year's period. The association's existence is expected to make drives of or-ganizations for funds by ticket sale, requests for donations or the sponsoring of entertainments unnecessary. Their projects are to be supported by the Welfare association. The directors of the Bingham Canyon welfare association hope to eliminate the demands of out-of-to-solicitors on local busi-ness establishments for causes of no concern or benefit to this community. Various schemers and racket-eers will find it more difficult to get contributions for dubious causes from the board of direc-tors of the Welfare association than they have in the past from business managers who have not the time to thoroughly investi-gate applicants for charity or donations. The Welfare association is be-ing supported by many residents who hope its establishment will eliminate persistent canvassing during the year. These individu-als see an advantage in the mak-- 1 ing of a contribution to all worthy charities in a lump sum instead of giving haphazardly to one cause one day and helping an-other a few days later, and so on during the entire year. (Continued on page 8) Sports Here and There By Al Ablett Bingham high school is still in the unbeaten class after tak-ing Tooele into camp Friday night following three-quarte- rs of the closest ball you have ever seen. There was never a time in the first three quarters when either team enjoyed over a three-poi- nt margin. But like Sea Bis-cuit in the stretch, Bingham came on to win going away. The boys play Murray Fri-day at Murray in one of the crucial games of their sched-ule. I hope the boys are not putting too much stress on the fact that Tooele beat the Smelt-er boys, because Murray will be ready for Bingham, and they have a good ball club. You know, the road of the unbeaten team is always the hardest, for every team they meet are pointing for them. I like Bing-ham to win, but an upset here would not be surprising. Yes, the Bingham basketball teams had a great week. Gem-me- ll took the highly-toute- d Mag-na Copper club team over the bumps to the tune of 64-4- 7 on Monday night in the second game of a double header. In the first game the Bing-ham Copper team literally set the strings on fire as they bom-barded the hoop for a 84-4- S victory over the Salt Lake po-lice. In this game there was just too much youth and speed on the Copper team for the boys that walk the beat. If they were having as much trouble finding a burglar as they had in locating the light-scorin- g Bingham boys Monday night we would be right in the middle of a crime wave. I am not sure, but in this game I think Mike Gerbich, the local forward, established a record for scoring in Utah when he split the strings for 40 points. This boy was as hot as a fire cracker, and the great play of his mates made it possible for him to make all of these points inside the foul line. Monday night the boys play Magna Mill team in the Gemmell gym. The Gemmell-Coppe- r club game was a honey. Both line-up- s were loaded with dynamite but the Gemmell boys ignited theirs first and fastest. There were stars galore in this game, but for my money Dick March, Gem- - mell's veteran guard, was out-standing man on the floor while he was in there. Gemmell plays the Salt Lake police in Salt Lake Monday night. Bowling is enjoying its great-est season in Bingham with vet-erans in the different men's lea-gue and a four team ladies' lea-gue going at top speed. There is one team competing in Salt Lake every Tuesday night. We have a squad of six men entered in the state Round Ro-bin and some of the boys have been turning in some swell scor-es. They bowled in the Temple alley Sunday night with Frank Zaccaria and George Abplanalp coming away with the money. The writer had what was al-most a bowler's dream last week in a three-gam- e series with Zac-caria. I put 11 straight strikes in the one-thre- e pocket, but the twelfth ball carried a little too high and I had to be satisfied with a 298. Say. I have some good news for the baseball fans. "Pee Wee" Bass, the little left hand-e- r that was with the House of David last year, has been sign-ed to pitch for Gemmell this year. Unequaled by anyone in baseball, PeeWee might weigh 135 soaking wet, but he had enough stuff to win 28 and loose but 12 last year with the House of David, two-third- s of those games against the Kan-sas City Monarchs and the one and only "Satchel" Page. Pee Wee has a record too long to print here, but believe me when I tell you he can pilch that ball. C. "Blackie" Robertson, a big catcher from Colorado, has also been signed. This boy gives you the impression that he knows what it is all about. He stands six-fo- ot one and weighs about 185. He comes highly recom-mended by good baseball men. (Continued on page 8) LADIES NIGHT SET BY LIONS CLUB MEMBERS Decision was made Tuesday ev-ening by Lions club members to hold a ladies night banquet Wed-nesday, January 31, at 6 p. m. at the Italian-Frenc- h cafe. After the banquet the group will at-tend the high school operetta, "Pirates of Penzance", in a body. With Vice President C. E. Ad-derl-in charge, a discussion was held regarding an education-al campaign on buying in Bing-ham. Appointed to a committee on arrangements were William Grant, chairman; T. H. McMullin, Art J. Sorenson, L. G. Burress and C. A. Morle-y. INCREASE SHOWN IN PRODUCTION OF METAL IN 1939 : During 1939 mines of' Utah an important source of the state's wealth produced about 21,159,400 tons of ore of all class-es, compared with 13,248,660 tons in 1938; most of the gain was in copper ore from the Bingham, or West Mountain, mining dis-trict, U. S. bureau of mines fig-ures released this week reveal. ; Output of copper rose from 216.252.000 pounds, worth $21,- - 192,696, to 341,040,000 pounds valued at $35,468,160. Nearly all this increase came from product-ion of the Utah Copper company. The last feur months of the year operations by the Utah Cop-per company increased to bring about a 60 per cent increase in output of copper over 1938, but the total production was still less than that of 1937, a year of record production. The total value of metal out-put' from the Bingham or West Mountain district increased $16,-116,9- in 1939. In 1938 Bing-ham district's output was $33,-707,9- and in 1939 $49,824,910. In 1937 the output was valued at $69,414,205. Total metal production for Utah in 1939 was valued at $62,385,575, an increase of 43 per cent over the production value of $43,745,-30- 2 in 1938. This was an increase 3f $18,639,673. Each of the five principal non-ferro-metals included in the report gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc showed an se in total value. The report was compiled by rhomas H. Miller and Paul Luff )f the Salt Lake office, mineral production and economics divi-sion of the bureau. i Copper Yield Soars While all five metals increased in Value, nearly 77 per cent of the lotal increase was in copper the report pointed out. The figures by districts, with 1938 values listed first are: Bing-la- $33,707,918 and $49,824,910; Untie, $4,736,785 and $4,749,335; Park City, $2,732,259 and $3,825,-23- 3. "The output of gold in Utah from 200,630 fine ounces alued at $7,022,050 in 1938 to 76,060 ounces valued at $9,622,-100,- " the report said. Each of the three major dis-tricts shared in the increase. f Silver Increases "Silver production increased !rom 9,682,732 fine ounces, valued it $6,259,544, to 10,574,987 ounces, valued at $7,178,173. Silver from Jingham increased about 478,000 mnces and that from Park City ibout 226,000 ounces, but silver from Tintic district decreased ibout 402,000 ounces. ; - Lead Decreases "Output of lead decreased rom 131,314,000 pounds, valued it J $6,040,444, to 130,826,000 ounds, valued at $6,541,300. Zinc roduction decreased from pounds, valued at $3,231,- - 68, to 66,714,000 pounds, valued it $3,535,842. Lead decreased ess than 1 per cent in quantity, )Ut increased 8 per cent in value, ind zinc decreased 1 per cent in Uantity, but increased 9 per ent in value. fAbout the same number , nines were operating in 1939 as nl938, when 138 lode mines and 2L placers were productive." GREEN AND GOLD BALL AN EVENT OF NEXTTUESDAY Date of the West Jordan stake annual Green and Gold ball has been announced as Tuesday, Jan-uary 23, at the West Jordan jun-ior high school gymnasium and the time is 9 p. m. Miss Donna Davies has been chosen queen of the Bingham ward to be es-corted by William Johnsen. Queens from nine stake wards will compete for the honor of being named stake queen. Judg-ing will be made on a point basis, awarded for percentage members from each ward attending the ball, percentage of mutual fund paid and number of Improvement Eras sold by each ward. Assisting the Bingham ward queen will be Deenece Johan-se- n, Laura Joan Joseph and Col-leen Beckstead. The patrons from this ward are Bishop and Mrs. D. C. Lyon. Those from Lark are Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Crump and from Copperton Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Poulson. Theme of the ball is to be bas-ed on the northern lights and music will be furnished by the Smooth Keys orchestra. Dance demonstrations will be of the Caprice, Tango, and the original waltz with fifty-si- x couples par-ticipating. Other ward queens besides Miss Davies are: Copperton, Mar- - ion Pett; South Jordan, Alice Holt; Riverton first, Ruth Hamil-ton; Lark, Erma Webb; Herri-ma- n, Blanche Freeman; Riverton second, Margaret Silcox; West Jordan, Marjorie Williams; Bluff-dal- e, Clea Dansie. On the Green and Gold com-mittee from Bingham ward are Miss Virginia Harris and Rex Holland. .' NEGLIGENCE BLAMED FOR MINE ACCIDENT Investigation of the blast of December 10 at Utah Copper company mine closed with an official statement by E.A. Hodges, state metal mine inspector, that the accident which claimed the lives of three workmen was due to "carelessness". The three men, Nikola (Nick) Tomas, 24, Guiseppi De Marchi, 38, and Teofilio Martinez, 27, all members of a powder gang, had trouble priming a powder charge and attempted to prime the charge a second time. The main charge exploded before they left the spot and hurled hundreds of tons of rock and ore onto the men. Services were held Sunday for Mr. Tomas at the Highland Boy Community House. Requiem mass was celebrated Tuesday at the Holy Rosary church for Mr. De Marchi. The body of Mr. Martinez was taken to Truchas, N. M., for final rites there. COST AND REVENUE SHOWNBYREPORT Last year's revenue for sup-port of city government was $2667.40 higher than anticipated by the 1939 budget estimate total, $47,440.48, Recorder Eugene Mor-ris stated when his financial re-port for the past year was given the city council. Collection of miscellaneous funds during December totaled $12,009.03 and for the entire year were $22,801.96. During the year city miscellaneous revenue and sources were: state motor tax $2140.18; water rents, $7778.56; beer license, $1700; merchants' licenses, $3904.52; fines and for-feitures, $1776.50; dog taxes, $161.50; peddlers' licenses, $94; rent from county, $720; ceme-tery, $445. City tax revenue, estimated at $30,410.41 in the budget set-u- p for 1939, actually brought $31,-387.6- 2, Recorder Morris noted. Expenditures by departments during the past year were: City hall, $7,370.29; including salaries, advertising and election expense and other expenses; insurance, collecting taxes, compensation, $937.07; legal department, $600;' street department, supervisor, ex-penses, $7204.21; bonds and in-terest, , notes and interest, $10,-236.5- 4; police department salar-ies and expenses, $7984.50; Motor equipment, fire truck and city truck, $3159.98; fire de-partment, $1514.56; health de-partment salary, commissions and expenses, $3148.88; waterworks department, supervisor's salary. Dry Fork tunnel, expenses, $4799.35; improvements, Freeman drainage, $2924.91. The city's bank balance as of January 1 was $11,347.11 with checks outstanding $405.53, Mr. Morris' report showed. BINGHAM GRANITE TAKEJOOP LEAD On paper Bingham high school cagers hold the edge over the Murray high school quint and are doped to win tonight when the teams tangle at the Murray gym at 8 o'clock, following the second teams' game. However, the Murray crew members are both experienced and , dangerous. Their two lea-gue encounters have been thrill-ing exhibitions; they lost to Tooele by a very narrow margin and last week beat Grantsville 35-- 2. It was Bingham's lucky night at Tooele last Friday with Sergio Alvarez and Gordon Jensen, for-wards, hitting the hoop with regularity for both to total 13 points, and Frank Callen, center, pacing them with 19 counters. Ernest Sheen, guard, accounted for - Bingham's other two points. The Tooele team was bested 47-3- 9. The first three quarters were encounters, with Bingham but one point ahead at close of each period: 11-1- 0, 21-2- 0, 36-3- 5. In the final quarter the Miners turned on the heat to cinch their victory. The win places Bingham in the lead of Region two, tied for first place with the Granite Farmers. NEW COMMUNITY HOOP SCHEDULE NOW UNDERWAY The following is the balance of the first half Gemmell club and Highland Boy basketball schedule: January 22 Magna Mill at Highland Boy; Beane Motor at Utah Copper Club; Gemmell Club at Salt Lake Police; January 29 Beane Motor at Gemmell Club; Salt Lake Police at Magna Mill, Highland Boy at Utah Copper Club, double header; February 5 Beane Motor at Salt Lake Police; Magna Mill at Utah Copper Club; Highland Boy at Gemmell Club; Gemmell club and Highland Boy teams will play their home games at the Gemmell club in Bingham. Salt Lake Police will play at the Police gym, corner First South, State street, Salt Lake City. Magna Mill, Beane Motor and Utah Copper Club will play at the Utah Copper club in Gar-field. All games will start at 7:30 p. m., except on the nights when there is a double header, and the teams listed first will start at 7:00 p. m. O FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR BINGHAM MINER Funeral services for George Constantine Lambro, 45, Bing-ham miner who died January 9 in a Salt Lake City hospital, were conducted Sunday afternoon in the Greek Orthodox church, Second West and Third South streets, Salt Lake City. Graveside services were con-ducted by Mt. Moriah lodge No. 2, F.&A.M., and members of the American Legion post No. 2, in the Salt Lake City cemetery. Mr. Lambro was born in Greece July 13, 1894, and came to the United States in 1910. He served in the medical detachment, 213-t- h engineers, during the World war. Surviving are his parents and three sisters all residing in Greece. He was a member of the Kingsman lodge No. 22, F.&A.M., and the American Legion post No. 14 at Kingsman, Arizona, and of Ahepa, chapter No. 265, at Gallup, N.M. J. SCHENA RITES HELD WEDNESDAY Requiem mass was celebrated Wednesday morning at the Holy Rosary Catholic church for John Schena, 53, of Highland Boy, who died Sunday in a Salt Lake City hospital where he had been confined the past five-yea- rs with a lingering illness. The Reverend C. E. Hogan officiated. Mr. Schena was an employe of the Highland Boy mine and a resident of Highland Boy for 20 years. He was born in Belluno, Italy, in 1887 and came to the United States 33 years ago. Interment was in the Bingham cemetery under direction of the Bingham mortuary. Pallbearers were John Feraco, Santo Da Ronch, John JDeza, Guy Posti, John Dellagnola and John Gredo. There are no known survivors. APPLIANCE SALES GAIN OVER 1938 Demand for electric service and electrical appliances in the inter-mounta- in area served by the Utah Power & Light company this year is substantially ahead of 1938, it was announced today by George A. Bihler, division manager. Mr. Bihler, reported the com-pany's average residential and ' farm customer was using 7.4 per cent more electric service for the 12 month period ending October 31, 1939 than in the comparable 1938 period. He said electrical appliances likewise had won wide public acceptance, sales of refrigerators by dealers and company during the period in 1939 running 22.7 per cent ahead of 1938, ranges 17 per cent and water heaters 19 per cent. Domestic and farm electric-consumer-continued to obtain service at lower cost during the-year- , the average rate per kilo-watt hour dropping below 3.5 cents, lowest in the history of the area, Mr. Bihler said Ten years ago the average domestic consumer paid 5.7 cents per kilo-watt hour, and 15 years ago more than double the present price. Almost 110,000,000 kilowatt hours were used in the territory served during the year 1939 for farm and residential purposes; an average of 1150 kilowatt hours per residential and farm custom-er. This is 28 per cent above the national average of 900 kwh. "If the domestic consumer ten years ago had used as much elec-tric service annually as he used in 1939 his average monthly bill would have been $5.35, whereas this year the average monthly bill amounts to only $3.50, it was explained. Oftentimes consum-ers fail to take note of the ten rate reductions in the past few years because their constantly increasing use of service for labo-r- saving appliances maintains their monthly bill at a somewhat constant level." r CENTRAL SCHOOL P.-T.- GROUP HOLD MEETING Presented-- by students at the Bingham Central school, a play-let titled "The News Kids Din-ner" was featured entertainment at the Parent-Teacher- s associa-tion meeting last night. Appear-ing in the skit were Reed Schultz and Colleen Robison, Clarinet duet; Bessie and Bonnie Chad-wic- k, saxophone duet; Katherine King, Colleen Robison and June Ishimatsus, tap dance. Wearing new uniforms and performing like veterans under direction of LaVern Dickson, the Central school band played selec-tions. A difficult saxophone solo was clayed by Billy Earl Clouch with Mrs. John Rosell, accompanist. Mrs. D. O. Stoker gave a vocal solo. O MRS. MEYER SMERNOFF HEADS BAND MOTHERS Elected to head the Band Mothers association of the Cen-tral school for the next year, Mrs. Meyer Smernoff was named president at a meeting held last Thursday to succeed Mrs. Harold Clough. Other officers are Mrs. C. W. Adderley, vice president, and Mrs. Irvin Stillman, secretary-treasure- r. Other, outgoing offi-cers besides Mrs. Clough are Mrs. Andrew Gray, retiring vice pres-ident, and Mrs. Vern Skinner, re-tiring secretary-treasure- r. Purpose of the meeting besides election of officers was to decide on a method of raising money for the purchase of band uni-forms. Sixteen members were present and the meeting place was at the homoe of Mrs. Clough. SPEAKER AT STATE MEET George Evans, proprietor of the Bingham Drug and presi-dent of the associated Drug clubs of Salt Lake City, was one of the speakers addressing the Utah Parmaceutical association at its midwinter conference in the Hotel Utah Wednesday afternoon. j 1939 FIRE LOSS TOTALED $165 The report of fires in Bingham Janyon as submitted recently by :hief Ray Tatton of. No. 1 com-'an- y, president- of the joint shows a total of 16 ity fire alarms answered in 1939 nth a total estimated damage of 165. In addition Bingham fire-ne- n were called for three county ires, at Lark. U. S. Mines and the Armstrong mine. Total time actually used in answering calls was eight hours. Estimated number of men ans-wering calls was set at 456, an average per call of 24. This year there were no fires attributed to gasoline, careless use of which has caused one or more fires dur-ing the Dast several vears. I REPORT OF FIRES 1939 pate Place Cause Damage 'eb. 2 538 Main street Spilled grease on stove none 'eb. 12 Catholic Church - Defective flue $ 0 far. 5 284 Main street Clothes near stove 20.00 far. 12 Cuprum Sparks on shingles ' 5.00 tpr. 6 570 Main street Overturned stove none tine 28 .... 93 Carr Fork Shingles 5.00 lly 5 Substation U. P. L. Cribbing fire none iig. 11 .... 12V2 Markham Boys and matches none tUg- - 12 Freeman wat. tank Careless workmen 100.00 tet. 5 Wells Garage Unknown (auto) 15.00 fov. 6 557 Main street Sparks on roof 10.00 tov. 18 283 Main street Sparks on roof none tec. 4 139 Main street Sparks on roof 5.00 tec. 4 192 Main street Defective flue none tec. 21 1 38 Main street Sparks on roof none tec. 27 109 Carr Fork Thawing pipes . none I Dr. Paul Richards Attends Industrial Health Congress Dr. Paul S. Richards of the Bingham Canyon hospital left Salt Lake City by plane Sunday to attend the annual congress on Industrial Health during this week, being held in Chicago. It is expected that Dr. Richards will return Sunday. s WEATHER REPORT Joseph Spendlove, Observer Jan. 12 28 37 2 inch snow Jan. 13 13 30 5 Ms in. snow Jan. 14 12 27 Jan. 15 13 26 Jan. 16 22 31 Jan. 17 26 37 Jan. 18 19 36 trace snow DOCTOR JOINS COPPER HOSPITAL STAFF Dr. O. J. Graham, formerly of Livingston, Montana, arrived in Bingham Saturday to join the Utah Copper company hospital staff. A 1937 graduate of Rush Medical college at Chicago, Dr. Graham interned at the Salt Lake county hospital and served as resident physician thare in 1939. He attended the premedical college at the University of Ken-tucky at Lexington, Ky., and is a native, of Maysville, Ky. The addition of Dr. Graham to the staff makes a total of three physicians at the mines hospital. Dr. Karl K. Latteier, who came here from Salt Lake City Sep-tember 1, and Dr. Graham are both assisting Dr. H. C. Jenkins. EAGLES PRESIDENT TO VISIT IN SALT LAKE The Fraternal Order of Eagles Grand worthy president, John A. Abel, will be in Salt Lake City, Friday, January 26, at which time he will deliver an address to Eagles of the state. A banquet will be given in honor of Mr. Abel at 7 p. m. at the Newhouse hotel. Officers of the state aerie will conduct iniation. Secretary H. R. Gust of the lo-cal aerie asks all local members planning on attending this affair to please notify him. SKIERS ORGANIZE, NAME ACTING OFFICERS At meetings held last Satur-day and Monday evenings, local ski enthusiasts organized a Bing-ham Canyon Ski club with Wil-liam Motis named acting presi-dent and Walter Bolic acting secretary. The club will foster ski activities in Bingham Canyon. It was voted to set the mem-bership fee at one dollar, . the amount to be applied on pur-chase of emblems when one is designed and selected. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Buchanan left Monday for the east after spending several days with Mrs. Buchanan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Macke of Copperton. The Buchanans will spend several months in Chicago and Detroit |